Toni Morrison Wins 2016 PEN/Saul Bellow Award

By Tim Cheng | March 2 2016 | Humanities & Social Sciences

Congratulations to Toni Morrison, who has been selected as the winner of the 2016 PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, which goes to a living American author whose scale of achievement in fiction, over a sustained career, places him or her in the highest rank of American literature.

The judges praised Morrison’s “revelatory, intelligent, bold” fiction, and said that she has “not only opened doors to others when she began to publish, [but] has also stayed grounded in the issues of her time. At every turn, she has commented upon and enlarged the conversation about what it is to be black, female, human, universal. Her brilliant and bracing fiction continues to address what is crucial, timely and timeless.”

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